#lit

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#bullying #reputation #self-destruction #sexuality #slut-shaming

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams? ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#heroes #military #war #dreams

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics". ↗

— Barack Obama

#war #dreams

Privilegiul de a fi oricine își arată și cealaltă față - a presiunii de a fi ca toată lumea și prin urmare - nimeni. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#libertate #personalitate #sine #dreams

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#awful #come #dedication #determination #effort

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fortress-of-impossibility #need #dreams

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ↗

— William Morris Hughes

#cross #current #empire #like #once

I have a habit of painting reality with my dreams. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#reality #dreams

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone. ↗

— Christina Westover

#gay #homosexuality #kurt-cobain #lesbian-lgbt #love